Park Avenue Coffee expanded its footprint in the city today, with a new downtown location opening in the former Starbucks space at 521 Olive. It marks the St. Louis coffee shop’s second location within a five-block radius.
“When Starbucks left that space, they left a huge void in the business/financial district of St. Louis,” says owner Dale Schotte. “Within a two-block area, there’s the five biggest buildings in downtown St. Louis. Those business people aren’t walking five blocks to get coffee.”
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Accordingly, the new location will be open during the workweek, from 7 a.m.–2 p.m. Monday through Friday.
In addition to coffee and tea, available food options include a scratch-made quiche and a breakfast sandwich with bacon, egg, and cheddar on an all-butter croissant.
The new location will also offer Park Avenue Coffee’s regionally cherished gooey butter cakes, with a wide variety of flavors for every occasion. Current seasonal cakes for November include pumpkin caramel pecan (once featured on Food Network’s Food Feuds), turtle, and pumpkin proper. Next month’s holiday flavors will include peppermint bark, ginger bread, and pecan pie.
The company’s website lists more than 70 flavors available for purchase, including traditional, cookies and cream, peach, white chocolate, key lime, peppermint patty, and esoterics such as banana chocolate chip and chocolate-covered cherry (pictured below). Also available are three varieties of box kits, so you can bake the local delicacy at home. Box kit flavors include traditional, double chocolate, and white chocolate raspberry, as well as a mix for home-style brownies.
The original Park Avenue location opened in Lafayette Square in 2006 and has storefronts in downtown Washington, Missouri, as well as The Hill, where the café doubles as a roastery. The Cortex location is currently closed, though Schotte says he plans to open that store “right after the first of the year.”
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